Originally Posted by WarWolf
What should he say?
“We will lose by 200+ runs?”

That would be a defeatist attitude.

What we are really looking for is a more mature statement like: "Look 300+ will be a very difficult target. We have to play at our best if we want to win this match someway or the other. We have some capable batsman in the side. Its tough work and hopefully our batsman will be able to take the challenge"

While Miraz said: "We are confident that we can chase 300+, we have some confident batsman in the side like Tamim, Mominul and Litton. We were able to chase 200 in Sri Lanka. If we can chase 200 away from home then we can chase 300 at home"

Even the most delusional BD fan would know the match is out of our hand. Instead, what our team says is that they are still "positive about winning" and in the process uses faulty logic. Idiots forget that the match we won was on a flatter surface, the wicket we are playing on right now is much more suited to the spinners.

All I can say is that 2 years ago, Soumya said he is confident that we can series defeat Pakistan and people laughed at him because we only won one ODI against Pakistan before that series. We ended up beating them 3-0.

I'm not saying we are going to win, the odds are very much against us. But it doesn't hurt if our players are confident.

that shows his maturity level in this format at this time.. cant blame him all players old or newer ones from this system probably maturing like that..our neighboring country players probably have better cricketing mature mindset